If you are a member of the British Fantasy Society (congratulations on your wise choice of association!) or if you attended the glorious celebration of fantasy that was FantasyCon 2012 in Brighton (wasn’t the weather good for October?), today is the final day to cast your votes in the British Fantasy Awards 2013.

Every vote matters! In every category!

If there is nothing you wish to vote for this year, even empty voting forms will be gratefully received, just so we know we reached you.

VOTE HERE!

Before the 2013 awards get started, we are asking members, publishers and any other interested parties to help us in building (and correcting) an informal list of eligible items. Inevitably, the list will be incomplete, but it should prod our members’ thoughts in appropriate directions.

Contributions to the list can be made, and corrections suggested, here.

The resulting eligibility list can be seen here.

You don’t have to be a member of the BFS or a FantasyCon attendee to contribute. Feel free to supply details of your own work. We’d be grateful to anyone spreading the word about this on Twitter, Facebook or their blog.

If you have a large number of items to add (for example if you’re a publisher or the editor of a magazine), you may find it easier to supply them in a spreadsheet to the awards administrator (see below). Just be sure to include a column listing the appropriate categories.

Note that the resulting list is an informal eligibility list. There is no prestige in appearing on it. People whose items appear on the list must not describe themselves as British Fantasy Award nominees, or as having been longlisted for the British Fantasy Award. Members will not be limited to voting on items that appear on the list.

For any queries as to the eligibility rules, please see the British Fantasy Awards constitution. If any questions remain, please contact the awards administrator, Stephen Theaker (bfsawards@britishfantasysociety.org).

The British Fantasy Awards were presented yesterday, September 30th, at FantasyCon in Brighton. This year’s Judges were James Barclay, Hal Duncan, Maura McHugh, Esther Sherman, and Damien G. Walter.

Novel
The August Derleth Award (for best horror novel)
The Ritual by Adam Nevill (Pan)

The Robert Holdstock Award (for best fantasy novel)
Among Others by Jo Walton (Tor Books)

Novella
Gorel and the Pot Bellied God by Lavie Tidhar (PS Publishing)

Short Fiction
The Coffin-Maker’s Daughter by Angela Slatter (A Book of Horrors, Jo Fletcher Books)

Anthology
The Weird, editors Jeff and Ann Vandermeer (Corvus Books)

Collection
Everyone’s Just So So Special by Robert Shearman (Big Finish)

Screenplay
Midnight in Paris by Woody Allen

Magazine/Periodical
Black Static, Andy Cox, editor; TTA Press

Comic/Graphic Novel
Locke and Key by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez (IDW Publishing)

BFS Special Jury Awards:

The PS Publishing Independent Press Award
Chomu Press; Quentin S. Crisp
(Jury: Sandy Auden, Peter Crowther, Nicholas Royle, Peter Tennant & Darren Turpin)

The Artist Award
Daniele Serra
(Jury: Guy Adams, Anne Sudworth, Christopher Teague)

The Non-Fiction Award
Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Super Hero by Grant Morrison (Jonathan Cape)
(Jury: Djibril al-Ayad, Roz Kaveney & Adam Roberts)

The Sydney J. Bounds Best Newcomer Award
Kameron Hurley
(Jury: Adele Wearing, Jenny Barber, Lou Morgan)

The Karl Edward Wagner Special Award
Peter & Nicky Crowther
(Jury: BFS & Fantasycon Committees)

Congratulations to all the winners and nominees!

The deadline has been extended until the end of this week to book your place at the British Fantasy Awards Banquet on the Sunday afternoon, 30 September 2012, at FantasyCon. Always the grand finale of the convention, this is when the British Fantasy Society will announce the winners of this year’s prestigious British Fantasy Awards. Once bookings are closed we cannot take any further reservations.

The Banquet will be held in the Royal Albion Hotel’s Regency Lounge from 1:00pm until around 4:00pm on 30 September, when it will be followed by the traditional Dead Dog Party in the convention bar. There are only a small number of places remaining, and these will be allocated on a first-come basis.

To book your Banquet meal, please go to: http://www.fantasycon2012.org/banquet.php where you will find a full choice of menu and details of how to pay.

Please note that you MUST be a registered attendee of FantasyCon 2012 when you book your Banquet meal, unless you are a British Fantasy Award nominee for this year.

Publishers and individuals who wish to pre-reserve a table should e-mail banquet [at] fantasycon2012.org and supply a list of the ten people that they will have on their table. Each person should have a meal booked and paid for before the table reservation is made.

FantasyCon 2012 is being held at the Royal Albion Hotel in the historic seaside town of Brighton, East Sussex, over the weekend of 27 – 30 September 2012. We now have fewer than 40 memberships remaining, so if you haven’t joined up yet, then please do so now. All you have to do is go to the “How to Join” page on the website (www.fantasycon2012.org/join.php), submit the form with your details and then pay via the PayPal buttons. Alternately, you can print out the form and mail it with a cheque to the address given. A limited number of Saturday-Only memberships are also now available.

FantasyCon 2012 is pleased to announce author, broadcaster and columnist Muriel Gray as its third Author Guest of Honour. Best remembered as co-presenter of Channel 4’s seminal early 1980s music programme The Tube, alongside Jools Holland and Paula Yates, she began her writing career in 1995 with the best-selling horror novel The Trickster (shortlisted for a British Fantasy Award). It was followed by two more, Furnace (1996) and The Ancient (2000), which Stephen King described as “scary and unputdownable”. She has also contributed many short stories to anthologies and magazines, and written for comics.

Muriel joins FantasyCon’s other Author Guests of Honour, legendary Texas “Mojo Story Writer” Joe R. Lansdale and New York Times best-selling fantasy author Brent Weeks, Special Editor Guest Mary Danby, and Master of Ceremonies Tim Lebbon.

The British Fantasy Society has recently announced its list of Nominees for this year’s British Fantasy Awards, and you can now book your place at the Awards Banquet on the Sunday afternoon. This gala event is always the highlight of the convention, but please be aware that places are strictly limited so early booking is advised.

Programming for the convention is also now being put together. As always, there will be panels, talks and presentations on a wide variety of genre-related topics presented over the weekend. If you are interested in being considered for programming, then please register HERE.  And if you are interested in doing a Reading from your own work, then go HERE to register.

Publishers who wish to sponsor Launch/Signing Parties, have material included in the Delegate Bags or donate prizes to the Raffle should contact info [at] fantasycon2012 [dot] org. This is also the same e-mail to contact if you are interested in advertising in the Souvenir Book or Pocket Programme.

The Dealers’ Room is currently sold out, but if you want to be put on a waiting list, in case anybody drops out, then please contact dealers [at] fantasycon2012 [dot] org

After the huge success of last year’s event, the convention is returning to the Royal Albion Hotel on the seafront, where rooms are now selling out fast. For those who require a little more luxury, there are also a limited number of rooms available at the nearby Queens Hotel. Booking information for both hotels can be found on the website HERE

FantasyCon 2012 is being held in the historic seaside town of Brighton, East Sussex, from 27 – 30 September 2012. If you haven’t joined up yet, then please do so now as membership prices will be increased from 1 June 2012. All you have to do is go to the “How to Join” page on the website HERE, submit the form with your details and then pay via the PayPal buttons. Alternatively, you can print out the form and mail it with a cheque to the address given.

Following announcement of the shortlist for the 2012 British Fantasy Awards, the long lists from which the shortlisted works/candidates were chosen can now be revealed. The ‘long lists’ are the list of members’ recommendations in each category, including jurors’ recommendations as applicable. The lists have been copied from the voting data. Titles appear in no particular order. While the Awards Administrator has made every effort to check any apparent discrepancies (such as variant spellings), time has not permitted checking the eligibility of every item in each category. Any errors noted may be reported to the Awards Administrator at bfsawards [at] britishfantasysociety [dot] org

British Fantasy Award recommendations:

Novel:
The Ritual; Adam Nevill (Pan Macmillan)
Zone One; Colson Whitehead (Harvill Secker)
Deadline; Mira Grant (Orbit)
The Concrete Grove; Gary McMahon (Solaris)
Southern Gods; John Horner Jacobs (Nightshade Books)
Regicide; Nicholas Royle (Solaris)
The Dracula Papers: Book 1 The Scholars Tale; Reggie Oliver (Chomu Press)
The Shadow of the Soul; Sarah Pinborough (Gollancz)
The Mall; S L Grey (Corvus Books)
Frankenstein’s Prescription; Tim Lees (Tartarus Press)
The Orphan Palace; Joseph S Pulver, Sr (Chomu Press)
Enterprise of Death; Jesse Bullington (Orbit)
Bleed;    Ed Kurtz (Abattoir)
Department 19; Will Hill (Harper Collins)
Black Flowers; Steve Mosby (Orion)
11.22.63; Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton)
The Left Hand; Serenity J Banks (Dark Continents)
Ghosts Know; Ramsey Campbell (PS Publishing)
Ashes; Ilsa J Bick (Quercus)
666 Charing Cross Road; Paul Magrs (Headline Review)
Outpost; Adam Baker (Hodder & Stoughton)
The Lamplighters; Frazer Lee (Samhain Publishing)
Forest of Shadows; Hunter Shea (Samhain Publishing)
Loss of Separation; Conrad Williams (Solaris)
Kin; Kealan Patrick Burke (Cemetery Dance)
Revenants; Daniel Mills (Chomu Press)
Rivers of London; Ben Aaronovitch (Gollancz)
Graveminder; Melissa Marr (Harper Collins)
The Last Werewolf; Glen Duncan (Canongate)
Osama; Lavie Tidhar (PS Publishing)
Enter, Night; Michael Rowe (ChiZine Publications)
Little Star; John Ajvide Lindqvist (Quercus)
The Thing on the Shore; Tom Fletcher (Quercus)
The Damned Highway; Brian Keene and Nick Mamatas (Dark Horse)
Cyber Circus; Kim Lakin-Smith (NewCon Press)
Hunter’s Moon; Paul Finch (BBC Books)
A Matrix of Angels; Christopher Conlon (Creative Guy Publishing)
Isis Unbound; Allyson Bird (Dark Regions Press)
Long Lankin; Lindsay Barraclough (Bodley Head)
Shapes in the Mist; G R Yeates
Moon over Soho; Ben Aaronovitch (Gollancz)
Cold Mirrors; C J Lines (Adramelech Books)
Killer Move; Michael Marshall Smith (Orion)
Restoration – The World House; Guy Adams (Angry Robot)
Theatre of Curious Acts; Cate Gardner (Hadley Rille)
A Monster Calls; Patrick Ness and Siobhan Dowd (Walker)
O My Days; David Mathew (Triskaideka Press)
The Faceless; Simon Bestwick (Solaris)
Fangboy; Jeff Strand (Delirium Press)
Dead Bad Things; Gary McMahon (Angry Robot)
Mechanique; Genevieve Valentine (Prime)
The Burning Soul; John Connolly (Hodder & Stoughton)
Redlaw; James Lovegrove (Solaris Books)
Flesh Eaters; Joe McKinney (Pinnacle)
Ghost Story; Jim Butcher (Orbit)
Abarat 3 Absolute Midnight; Clive Barker (Harper Collins)
Reamde; Neal Stephenson (Atlantic Books)
God’s War; Kameron Hurley (Nightshade Books)
Snuff; Terry Pratchett    (Doubleday)
Somnium; Steve Moore (Somnium/Strange Attractor)
The Crippled God; Steven Erikson (Bantam Press)
The Heroes; Joe Abercrombie (Gollancz)
The Islanders; Christopher Priest (Gollancz)
The Cold Commands; Richard Morgan (Gollancz)
The Scar Crow Men; Mark Chadbourn (Gollancz)
Among Thieves; Douglas Hulick (Tor)
Fenrir; M D Lachlan (Gollancz)
Among Others; Jo Walton (Tor)
Enter Wildthyme; Paul Magrs (Snowbooks)
The Rogue; Trudi Canavan (Orbit)
IQ84; Haruki Murakami (Harvill Secker)
Babylon Steel; Gaie Sebold (Solaris)
Jack Cloudie; Stephen Hunt (Harper Voyager)
A Dance with Dragons; George R R Martin (Harper Voyager)
Daughter of Smoke and Bone; Laini Taylor (Hodder and Stoughton)
The Night Circus; Erin Morgenstern (Harvill Secker)
City of Hope and Despair; Ian Whates (Angry Robot)
Lowtown: The Straight Razor Cure; Daniel Polansky (Hodder & Stoughton)
Embassytown; China Mieville (Macmillan)
The Fallen Blade; Jon Courtenay Grimwood (Orbit)
The Traitors Gate; Sarah Silverwood (Gollancz)
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children; Ransom Riggs (Quirk)
Dangerous Waters; Juliet McKenna (Solaris)
The Company Man; Robert Jackson Bennett (Orbit)
The Emperor’s Knife; Mazarkis Williams (Jo Fletcher Books)
Hard Magic; Larry Correia (Baen Books)
Neon Court; Kate Griffin (Orbit)
Wise Man’s Fear; Patrick Rothfuss (Gollancz)
Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D’Urbavilles; Kim Newman (Titan Books)
Elves: once walked with Gods*; James Barclay (Gollancz)
Savage City; Sophia McDougall (Gollancz)
The Ruby Trick; Julia Knight (Carina Press)
Wake Up and Dream; Ian R MacLeod (PS Publishing)
The Immorality Engine; George Mann (Snowbooks)
Cyrus Darian and the Technicrom; Raven Dane (Prosochi)
White Cat; Holly Black (Gollancz)
Apoidea; Douglas Thompson (Exaggerated Press)
Heartless: The Parasol Protectorate: Book 4; Gail Garriger (Orbit)
Songs of the Earth – the Wild Hunt book 1; Elspeth Cooper (Gollancz)
Echo City; Tim Lebbon (Orbit)
Darkness Falling; Peter Crowther (Angry Robot)
Harbinger of the Storm; Aliette de Bodard (Angry Robot)
Mr Fox; Helen Oyeyemi (Picador)
Dr Who: Borrowed Time; Naomi A Alderman (BBC Books)
The Evolutionary Void; Peter F Hamilton (Pan)
The Sword of Shadows; Adrian Cole (Wildside Press)
popCULT; David Barnett (Pendragon Press)
Picus the Thief; Robin Bennett (Small Vampires)
The Silver Wind; Nina Allan (Eibonvale)
All Clear; Connie Willis (Spectra Books)

(* ‘Elves: Once walked with Gods’ by James Barclay is included in the list of members’ recommendations. James Barclay is on the BFA Jury this year.)

Novella:
Dancing the Warrior; Marie Brennan (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #66 #67)
The Man Who Bridged the Mist; Kij Johnson (Asimov’s Science Fiction)
Alcyone; Colin Insole (Ex Occidente)
The Man Who Ended History; Ken Liu (Panverse)
Ghosts with Teeth; Peter Crowther (A Book of Horrors, Jo Fletcher Books)
Blue and Gold; K J Parker (Subterranean)
Edge of Dreams; Debbie Bennett (e book)
Jesus and the Eightfold Path; Lavie Tidhar (Immersion Press)
Greyglass; Tanith Lee (Immanion Press)
Gorel and the Pot-Bellied God; Lavie Tidhar (P S Publishing)
Bleed for you; Michael Lewis Calvillo (Delirium Books)
Halflife; Paul Kane (Books of the Dead)
The Men from Porlock; Laird Barron
Alice through the Plastic Sheet; Robert Shearman (A Book of Horrors, JF Books)
Near Zennor; Elizabeth Hand (A Book of Horrors, Jo Fletcher Books)
Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine; Peter Straub (Subterranean Press)
Isabel Jane; Catherine Dale (Pendragon Press)
Angels of the Silences; Simon Bestwick (Pendragon Press)
Pataki; Nisi Shawl (Strange Horizons)
Murder Born; Robert Reed (Asimov’s Science Fiction)
Barbed Wire Hearts; (Delirium Books)
A Brood of Foxes; Kristin Livdahl (Aqueduct Press)
The Child’s Problem; Reggie Oliver (A Book of Horrors, Jo Fletcher Books)
Terra Damnata; James Cooper (PS Publishing)
Angels of the Silences; Simon Bestwick (Pendragon Press)
The Grinding House; Kaaron Warren (40k)
The Mill; Mark West (Greyhart Press)
Times Table; Robert Shearman (Big Finish)
Promised Land Blues; Rio Youers (P S Publishing)
The Affair of the Chalk Cliffs; by James P Blaylock (Subterranean Press)
The Music of Bengt Karlsson, Murderer; John Ajvide Lindqvist (A Book of Horrors, Jo Fletcher Books)

Short Fiction:
At the Sign of the Black Dove; Lou Morgan (Pandemonium: Stories of the Apocalypse)
Qiqirn; Simon Kurt Unsworth (Phobophobia)
The Thief of Precious Things; A C Wise (Bewere the Night)
The Coffin-Maker’s Daughter; Angela Slatter (A Book of Horrors)
The Dark Space in the House in the Garden at the Centre of the World; Robert Shearman (Solaris/House of Fear)
Vamps Got Talent; Ross Baxter (Fangtales, Wyvern publications)
Flowers of the Sea; Reggie Oliver (The Horror Anthology of Horror Anthologies)
She Murdered Mortal He; Sarah Hall (Granta 117)
The Fool Jobs; Joe Abercrombie (Night Shade Books)
Small Price to Pay for Birdsong; K J Parker (Subterranean)
What They Hear in the Dark; Gary McMahon (Spectral Press)
Florrie; Adam Nevill (House of Fear)
Antlers; Thana Niveau (Death Rattles)
Sad, Dark Thing; Michael Marshall Smith (A Book of Horrors)
Butterfly; Garth Upshaw (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
Grey Magic for Cats; Jan Edwards (BFS Journal – New Horizons)
Waiting for the Bullet; Mark Morris (Gutshot, PS Publishing)
Of Dawn; Al Robertson (Interzone)
Me and My Shadow; Justin Carroll (Fangtales, Wyvern Publications)
I Have Heard the Mermaids Singing; Ray Cluley (Black Static #26)
Quieta Non Movere; Reggie Oliver (The Eighth Black Book of Horror)
Black Feathers; Alison Littlewood (Black Static 22)
The Little Green God of Agony; Stephen King (A Book of Horrors)
Closer Than You Think; Neil Williams (Ill at Ease, Penman Press)
Tethered by Mecurio; D. Rivera (Interzone, TTA Press)
Not The End of the World; Sophia McDougall (Pandemonium: Stories of the Apocalypse)
Dermot; Simon Bestwick (Black Static)
Botched; Lorraine Slater (The Monster Book for Girls)
Christ the Painter; Allen Ashley (Postscripts 24/25) 2
The Curtain Parts; Christopher Fowler (Black Static, TTA Press)
For Shame of Doing Wrong; Joel Lane (Unspoken Water 1)
Walk the Last Mile; Steve Savile (Terror Tales of the Lake District)
Pins and Needles; Ray Cluley (Black Static)
The Quiet Coach; Alison Littlewood (Fogbound from 5, Hersham Horror)
Cold Snap; Robert Shearman (Everyone’s Just So So Special)
Card Sharp; Rajan Khanna (The Way of the Wizard)

Deluge; Kim Lakin-Smith (Pandemonium: Stories of the Apocalypse)
Bury the Truth; Carole Johnston (Dark Minds Anthology)
Restoration; Robert Shearman (Big Finish)
Coverhithe; China Mieville (The Guardian)
Nowhere Hill; Cate Gardner (Spectral Press)
The Man in the Ditch; Lisa Tuttle (A Book of Horrors)
Christopher Raven; Theodora Goss (Fantasy Magazine)
Swans; Kelly Link (Fantasy Magazine)
The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains; Neil Gaiman (Stories – Headline Review)
The Day or the Hour; Jonathan Oliver (Pandemonium: Stories of the Apocalypse)
The Tower; Mark Samuel (The Man who Collected Machen, Chomu)
Wait; Conrad Williams (Haunts, Ulysses Press)
King Death; Paul Finch (Spectral Press)
Timekeeping; L H Leslie (Black Static, TTA Press)
Closer; Osgood Vance (Pandemonium: Stories of the Apocalypse)
Spiral; David Rix (The Monster Book for Girls)
Objects in Dreams May be Closer than They Appear; Lisa Tuttle (House of Fear anthology)
In the House of Answers; Allen Ashley (BFS Journal)
White Butterflies; Stephen Volk (Gutshot, P S Publishing)
Little One; Steve Rasnic Tem (Unspoken Water 1)
Cow Castle; Paul Finch (Death Rattles)
Roots and All; Brian Hodge (A Book of Horrors)
Daughters of Kali; Neesha Meminger (Expanded Horizons #27)
The Paper Menagerie; Ken Liu (Fantasy and Science Fiction)
Villanova; Paul Meloy (House of Fear)
Tok; Paul Finch (The Eighth Black Book of Horror)
Wikolak; Nina Allan (Crimewave 11: Ghosts)
The Morraine; Simon Bestwick (Terror Tales of the Lake District, Gray Friar)
Kriegsmaterial; Adrian Chamberlain (Fogbound from 5, Hersham Horror)
Your Golden Hands; Andrew Hook (Postscripts 24/25)
Tying knots; Ken Liu (Clarksworld)
On the beach; Andrew Hook (Unspoken Water 1)
Hail; Daniel Kaysen (Black Static)
Timekeeping; V H Leslie (Black Static)
Times Table; Robert Shearman in Everyone’s Just So, So Special by Robert Shearman (Big Finish, July 2011)
Moons; Ramsay Campbell (The Devil’s Coattails, Cycatrix Press)

Anthology:
Pandemonium: Stories of The Apocalypse; edited by Anne C. Perry and Jared Shurin (Jurassic London)
Granta 117: Horror; edited byJohn Freeman (Granta).
Wildthyme in Purple; edited by Cody Quijano-Schell and Stuart Douglas (Obverse Books)
The Way of the Wizard; edited by John Joseph Adams (Prime Books)
House of Fear; edited by Jonathan Oliver (Solaris Books)
The Master in Cafe Morphine; edited by Dan Ghetu (Ex Occidente Press)
Fangtales; edited by Berni Stevens (Wyvern Publications)
The Weird; edited by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer (Corvus Books)
The Best SFF of the Year Volume 5; edited by Jonathan Strachan (Night Shade Books)
Delicate Toxins; edited by John Hirschhorn-Smith (Side Real Press)
A Book of Horrors; edited by Stephen Jones (Jo Fletcher Books)
The Eighth Black Book of Horror; edited by Charles Black    (Mortbury Press)
13: Tales of Dark Fiction; edited by Adam Bradley (Morpheus Tales)
Tales of the Shadowmen 8: Agents Provocateurs; edited by Jean-Marc Lofficier, Randy Lofficier (Black Coat Press)
Stories: All-new Tales; edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio    (Headline Review)
The Horror Anthology of Horror Anthologies; edited by DF Lewis    (Megazanthus Press)
Ill at Ease; edited by Mark West (PenMan Press)
The Monster Book for Girls; edited by Terry Grimwood (Exaggerated Press)
Postscripts 24/25; edited by Pete Crowther (PS Publishing)
Gutshot; edited by Conrad Williams (PS Publishing)
The Book of Cthulu; edited by Ross E Lockhart (Night Shade Books)
Terror Tales of the Lake District; edited by Paul Finch (Gray Friar Press)
Further Conflicts; edited by Ian Whates (NewCon Press)
A Dream of Stone; edited by D. M. Mitchell (Paraphilia Books and Magazines)
New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird; edited by Paula Guran (Prime Books)
The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities; edited by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer (Harper Voyager US)
Haunts: Reliquaries of the Dead; edited by Stephen Jones (Ulysses)
Fogbound from 5; edited by Peter Mark May (Hersham Horror)
The Best Horror of the Year Volume 3; edited by Ellen Datlow (Night Shade Books)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 22; edited by Stephen Jones (Robinson)
Beware the Night; edited by Ekaterina Sedia (Prime Books)
The Avenger: The Justice Inc. Files; edited by Joe Gentile, Howard Hopkins (Moonstone Books)
Phobophobia; edited by Dean M Drinkel (Dark Continents Publishing)
Alt Dead; edited by Peter Mark May (Hersham Horror)
Death Rattles; edited by Gary McMahon, Paul Finch and Stephen Volk (Gray Friar Press)
The Devil’s Coattails; edited by Jason V Brock and William F Nolan (Cycatrix Press)

(Please note – BFS publications are ineligible and therefore any recommendations have not been listed.)

Collection:
A Glass of Shadow; Liz Williams (Newcon Press)
Everyone’s Just So So Special; Robert Shearman (Big Finish Productions)
Quiet Houses; Simon Kurt Unsworth (Dark Continents)
Somewhere Beneath Those Waves; Sarah Monette (Prime Books)
Allurements of Cabochon; John Gale (Ex Occidente)
Baby’s First Book of Seriously Fucked Up Shit; Robert Devereaux (Eraserhead)
Long Shadows, Nightmare Light; Mark Morris (PS Publishing)
The Engines of Desire; Livia Llewellyn (Lethe Press)
Mrs Midnight; Reggie Oliver (Tartarus Press)
This is the Quickest Way Down; Charles Christian (Proxima)
Scream Quietly: The Best of Charles L. Grant; Charles L. Grant (PS Publishing)
Sherlock Holmes: Revenant; William Meikle (Dark Regions Press)
Love and Other Adventures; Nick Mellish (Lulu)
Binscombe Tales; John Whitbourn (Spark Furnace)
The Silver Wind; Nina Allen (Eibonvale)
The Man Who Collected Machen and Other Weird Tales; Mark Samuels (Chomu Press)
The Inhabitant of the Lake & Other Unwelcome Tenants; Ramsey Campbell  (PS Publishing)
Rumours of the Marvellous; Peter Atkins (Alchemy Press/Airgedlamh Productions)
Red Gloves; Christopher Fowler (PS Publishing)
Ventriloquism; Catherynne M. Valente (PS Publishing)
After the Apocalypse; Maureen F McHugh (Small Beer Press)
One Monster is not enough; by Paul Finch (Gray Friar Press)
Wind Angels; Leigh Kennedy (PS Publishing)
Central Park Knight by C.J. Henderson (MacMillan-Tor Books)
The Dragnet Solar Pons et al; August Derleth (Battered Silicon Dispatch Box)
The Secret Life of the Panda; Nick Jackson (Chomu Press)
Medi-Evil Volume 1; Paul Finch (Brentwood Press)
The Janus Tree; Glen Hirshberg (Subterranean Press)
Eldritch Tales; H.P. Lovecraft (Gollancz)
Nitrospective; Andrew Hook (Dog Horn Press)
Pain Cages; Paul Kane (Books of the Dead Press)
The Monkey’s Wedding and Other Stories; Joan Aiken (Small Beer Press)
Dark Dreams, Pale Horses; Rio Youers (PS Publishing)
Five Degrees of Latitude; Michael Reynier (Tartarus Press)
Gathered Dust and Others; W.H. Pugmire     (Dark Regions Press)
It Knows Where You Live; Gary McMahon (Gray Friar Press)

Screenplay:
Melancholia; Lars Von Trier
X-Men: First Class; Jane Goldman, Ashley Miller, Zack Stentz, Matthew Vaughn
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2; Steve Kloves
A Servant of Two Masters (Merlin, S4 ep6); Lucy Watkins
Attack the Block; Joe Cornish
Another Earth; Brit Marling
Merlin: Lancelot Du Lac; Lucy Watkins, Sara Hamill
The Doctor’s Wife (Dr Who); Neil Gaiman
The Awakening; Stephen Volk, Nick Murphy
Kill List; Ben Wheatley and Amy Jump
Midnight in Paris; Woody Allen
The Devil’s Rock; Paul Campion, Paul Finch, Brett Ihaka
Snowtown; Shaun Grant
Game of Thrones: Fire and Blood; David Benioff and D. B. Weiss
A Good Man Goes to War (Dr Who); Steve Moffat
Captain America: The First Avenger; Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely
Being Human; Toby Whitehouse
Torchwood Ep 7: Immortal Sins; Russell T Davies (creator), Jane Espensen
Hugo; John Logan
Rise of the Planet of the Apes; Rick Jaffa
Super; James Gunn
Black Pond; Will Sharpe
Marchlands; Stephen Greenhorn and Chrissy Skinns
Troll Hunter; André Øvredal, Sveinung Golimo* (NB – 2010 – ineligible)
A Golden Crown: Game of Thrones; Jane Espenson, David Benioff, D. B. Weiss
Super 8; J J Abrams
Whisperer in Darkness; Andrew Leman
The Fades:  The Chosen One
Winter Is Coming: Game of Thrones; David Benioff and D.B. Weiss
Red State; Kevin Smith, Jon Gordon
Sucker Punch; Zack Snyder, Steve Shibuya
Sherlock; Steven Moffat & Mark Gatiss
Source Code; Ben Ripley
13 Assassins; Kaneo Ikegami, Daisuke Tengan
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides; Terry Rossio & Ted Elliot
The Skin I Live In; Pedro Almodovar
The Wedding of River Song, Doctor Who; Steven Moffat

Periodical/Magazine:
Beneath Ceaseless Skies; Scott H Andrews
Ghosts & Scholars Newsletter; Rosemary Pardoe (Haunted Library)
Black Static; Andy Cox (TTA Press)
Interzone; Andy Cox (TTA Press)
Something Wicked; Joe Vaz (Something Wicked)
Rue Morgue; Rodrigo Gudino
Wormwood; Mark Valentine (Tartarus Press)
The Horror Zine; Jeani Rector (online)
Paraphilia; D. M. Mitchell (Paraphilia Books & Magazines)
Fantasy and Science Fiction; Van Gelder
Lovecraft eZine; Michael Davis (Michael Davis)
Fantasy Magazine; John Joseph Adams
SFX; Dave Bradley (Future)
Doctor Who Magazine
PS; Peter Crowther, Nick Gevers (PS  Publishing)
Midnight Street; Trevor Denyer (Immediate Direction)
Shimmer; Beth Wodzinski
Polluto; Victoria Hooper and Adam Lowe (Dog Horn Press)
Paperback Fanatic; Justin Marriott
Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction; Stephen Theaker and John Greenwood (Silver Age Books)
Strange Horizons; Niall Harrison
Peake Studies; G Peter Winnington
Cemetery Dance
Morpheus Tales; Adam Bradley (Morpheus Tales)
Clarkesworld; Neil Clarke
The Fortean Times
Shadows & Tall Trees; Michael Kelly (Undertow Books)
This Is Horror; Michael Wilson (This Is Horror)
Pornokitsch; Jared Shurin and Anne C Perry
Shock Totem
The Short Review; Tania Hershman
Ideomancer; Leah Bobet

Comic/Graphic novel:
Animal Man; Jeff Lemire, Travel Foreman   DC Comics
Jennifer Wilde; Maura McHugh*
Locke and Key; Joe Hill/Gabriel Rodriguez   IDW Publishing
Nelson; various (Blank Slate)
Batman; Scott Snyder (DC Comics)
Neonomicon; Alan Moore
The Unwritten; Mike Carey and Peter Gross (Vertigo)
The Unwritten Vol. 4: Leviathan
The Unwritten: Dead Man’s Knock
Nonplayer; Nate Simpson (Image)
Illustrated Masques; Mort Castle (Gauntlet)
Finder – Voice; Carla Speed McNeil (Dark Horse)
Anya’s Ghost; Vera Brosgol (First Second)
Sweet Tooth Vol. 1 Jeff Lemire (Vertigo)
The Walking Dead; Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard (Image)
Clint; Mark Millar (Titan)
BatWoman; J.H. Williams III and W. Haden Blackman (DC Comics)
Absolute Sandman Vol 5;  Neil Gaiman (Titan)
Wonder Woman; Brian Azzarello, Cliff  Chiang (DC Comics)
Birds of Prey: End Run; Gail Simone
The Boys; Grant Morrison (Dynamite)
Don Quixote; Rob Davis (Self Made Hero)
Fish + Chocolate; Kate Brown (Self Made Hero)
The Cape; Jason Ciaramella/Zach Howard (IDW Publishing)
Demon Knights; Paul Cornell and Diogenes Neves (DC Comics)
Uncanny X-Men: Regenesis; Kieron Gillen, Carlos Pacheco (Marvel)
Roisin Dubh; Maura McHugh*
Fables; Bill Willingham (Vertigo)
Hellblazer: Bloody Carnations (Titan)
Xombi; Rozum, Irving (DC Comics)
The Dunwich Horror; Weinberg and Lansdale (IDW Publishing)
The Lovecraft Anthology; edited by Dan Lockwood (Self Made Hero)
Batman Noel; Lee Bermejo

*Jennifer Wilde and Roisin Dubh by Maura McHugh received recommendations from members in this category. Maura is on the BFA jury this year.

The PS Publishing Independent Press Award:
Newcon Press; Ian Whates
Prime Books; Sean Wallace
Ex Occidente Press; Dan Ghetu
Wyvern Publishing; Holly Stacey
Spectral Press; Simon Marshall-Jones
Chomu Press; Quentin S. Crisp
Tree House; Shaun Levin
Anarchy Books; Andy Remic
Tartarus Press; Ray Russell
Mortbury Press; Charles Black
Rainfall Books
Small Beer Press; Gavin Grant & Kelly Link
Nightjar Press; Nicholas Royle
Atomic Fez; Ian Alexander Martin
Noose & Gibbet; Johnny Mains
ChiZine Publications; Brett Savory & Sandra Kasturi
Gray Friar Press; Gary Fry
Pendragon Press; Christopher Teague
Hersham Horror; Peter Mark May
Eibonvale Press; David Rix
Dark Fuse; Shane Staley
TTA Press; Andy Cox
The Exaggerated Press; Terry Grimwood
Screaming Dreams; Steve Upham
Parahilia; D. M. Mitchell
Angry Robot; Marc Gascoigne
Obverse Books; Stuart Douglas
Dog Horn Publishing; Adam Lowe
Megazanthus Press; Des Lewis
Side Real Press; John Hirschhorn Smith
Centipede Press; Jerad Walters
Morpheus Tales; Adam Bradley
Black Coat Press; Greg M. Seigel
Dark Continents Publishing; David M.Youngquist
Bad Moon Books; Roy Robbins

Best Artist:

Les Edwards;
cover of A Book of Horrors (Jo Fletcher Books Sep, 2011

http://www.lesedwards.com/

Rumours of the Marvellous – Peter Atkins (Alchemy Press)
Book of Horrors ed. Stephen Jones (cover)

Julie Dillon;
Planetary Alignment/cover of Clarkesworld Nov 11
clarkesworldmagazine.com/artbio_62/

Santiago Caruso;
Master at Cafe Morphine

Gabriel Rodriguez;
Locke & Key

Mark Manley;
Titan, Newbury and Hobbes

Vincent Chong;
Dark Minds Anthology
vincentchong-art.co.uk/illustration1.html
cover of Cyber Circus
vincentchong-art.co.uk
BFS Journal cover,
Long Shadows, Nightmare Light by Mark Morris (cover)
cover of The Devil’s Coattails (Cycatrix Press, October 2011

David Rix;
cover of Feather, Eibonvale book covers

Steve Upham;
a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/418180_378247258868322_100000491532934_1475543_1168256446_n.jpg
cover – Monster Book for Girls

Daniele Serra;
A Season in Carcosa – Joseph S. Pulver (Miskatonic River Press)
www.multigrade.it
Demon of the Dark Wood

Paul Mudie
The Black Books of Horror
freewebs.com/mortburypress/1.bp.blogspot.com/-wr0NLlescIo/ThzRJzMzbYI/AAAAAAAAAYI/fySGz5sWlsc/s320/8th+Black+Book.jpg

John Coulthart;
johncoulthart.com

Melissa Gay;
Jesus and the Eightfold Path
immersionpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Jesus_Eightfold_Path_Cover.jpg

Paul Hanley;
Doctor Who, Buckaroo Banzai, Iris Wildthyme
dadsbigplan.com/2010/10/the-art-of-paul-hanley/

Nate Simpson;
Nonplayer

Chris Roberts;
Wolf Mask, Ram Mask, Deer Mask, Cat Mask
deadclownart.com

Travel Foreman;
Animal Man (DC)

Jethro Lentle; Lovecraft Ezine Cover November 2011
dystoper.deviantart.com/

Randy Broecker

Carla Speed McNeil;
Finder   lightspeedpress.com

Ben Baldwin;
Interzone Sep-Oct 2011, Black Static, illustrations for ‘The Silver Wind’ in Interzone 233, benbaldwin.co.uk/DesignsFrameset.htm
benbaldwin.co.uk, Cover of ‘Ghost Train’ – Stephen Laws

Clive Barker;
Abarat: Absolute Midnight (cover and internal art)
harpercollins.co.uk/Titles/15618/absolute-midnight-clive-barker-9780007100477 and clivebarker.info/artindex

Andy Bigwood;
The Sixty

Erik Mohr;
Eutopia by David Nickle (cover)
erikmohr.com

John Picacio;
www.johnpicacio.com/portfolio/2011/ned-stark.html
www.johnpicacio.com

Dave McKeen;
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True
mckean-art.co.uk

Jon Sullivan

Dominic Harman;
cover of Debris by Jo Anderton (Angry Robert 27 Sep 2011)

http://bleedingdreams.com/BleedingDreams/

Jenny Laatsch & Madame Thenadier;
Cover of Fantasy Magazine Nov 11
fantasy-magazine.com/new/artist-spotlight/artist-spotlight-jenny-laatsch-and-madame-thenadier/

Stephen J Clark;
Tartarus Press

Marc Silvestri;
The Incredible Hulk

Simon ‘Pye’ Parr;
cover of ‘Regicide’ – Nicholas Royle
pyeparr.blogspot.com/

Jimmy Broxton;
Knight & Squire trade paperback (DC)

Kate Brown;
Fish + Chocolate, danse-macabre.nu

Greg Capullo;
Batman

Pedro Marques;
cover of Osama

Steven Vincent Mitchell;
svmitchell.com

Bret Herholz;
Vworp, Vworp
colinbrockhurst.co.uk/vworpvworp/?p=459
Frazer Irving;
Xombi (DC)

Jim Kay;
A Monster Calls

Bob Eggleton

Mark Buckingham;
Fables

Mike Mignola

Non-Fiction:
Pornokitsch; Jared Shurin & Anne Perry
Austin Osman Spare; Phil Baker (Strange Attractor)
Coffinmaker’s Blues; Stephen Volk (Black Static Magazine)
Out of this World; Mike Ashley (British Library)
The Steampunk Bible: An Illustrated Guide to the World of Imaginary Airships, Corsets and Goggles, Mad Scientists, and Strange Literature; S.J. Chambers and Jeff VanderMeer (Abrams)
This is Horror; various
Supergods; Grant Morrison (Jonathan Cape)
Studies in the Horror Film: The Exorcist; ed. Danel Olson (Centipede Press)
Denying Science; John Grant (Prometheus)
Lest You Should Suffer Nightmares: A biography of Herbert Von Thal; Johnny Mains   (Screaming Dreams)
The Unsilent Library, Essays on the Russell T Davies Era of Doctor Who; Graham Sleight, Tony Keen and Simon Bradshaw (Science Fiction Foundation)
Case Notes (Black Static) Peter Tennant (TTA Press)
Studies in Terror: Landmarks of Horror Cinema; Jonathan Rigby (Signum Books)
Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen since the 1960s; Kim Newman(Bloomsbury)
Diary of a Witchcraft Shop; Liz Williams and Trevor Jones (NewCon Press)
Pornokitsch review of A Monster Calls; Anne C Perry (Pornokitsch)
Walking Dead Survivors’ Guide; John Scalzi
The Stars at Noonday; Brendan Moody
Everything is Nice; Martin Lewis
Monstrous Creatures; Jeff Vandermeer
Black Static column; Stephen Volk (TTA Press)
Shooty Dog Thing: 2th and Claw; Paul Castle and Jon Arnold (Hirst Books)
Monsters in the Movies; John Landis (Dorling Kindersley)
Un:Bound; Adele Wearing
Machenalia; Gwil Games (Newsletter)
Follow the Thread; David Hebblethwaite (online reviews blog)
Black Static column; Christopher Fowler (TTA Press)

The British Fantasy Society is pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2012 British Fantasy Awards. Determined by the 952 recommendations from BFS members and FantasyCon attendees and overseen by the British Fantasy Awards Jury, the shortlist is:

Novel:
The Heroes; Joe Abercrombie (Gollancz)
11.22.63; Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton)
Cyber Circus; Kim Lakin-Smith (NewCon Press)
A Dance with Dragons; George RR Martin (Harper Voyager)
The Ritual; Adam Nevill (Pan)
Among Others; Jo Walton (Tor Books)

There will be two awards in the best Novel category: The August Derleth Award for best horror novel and The Robert Holdstock Award for best fantasy novel.

Novella:
Terra Damnata; James Cooper (PS Publishing)
Ghosts with Teeth; Peter Crowther (A Book of Horrors, Jo Fletcher Books)
Near Zennor; Elizabeth Hand (A Book of Horrors, Jo Fletcher Books)
The Music of Bengt Karlsson, Murderer; John Ajvide Lindqvist (A Book of Horrors, Jo Fletcher Books)
Gorel and the Pot Bellied God; Lavie Tidhar (PS Publishing)
Alice Through the Plastic Sheet; Robert Shearman (A Book of Horrors, Jo Fletcher Books)

Short Fiction:
Dermot; Simon Bestwick (Black Static)
Sad, Dark Thing; Michael Marshall Smith (A Book of Horrors, Jo Fletcher Books)
Florrie; Adam Nevill (House of Fear, Solaris Books)
The Coffin-Maker’s Daughter; Angela Slatter (A Book of Horrors, Jo Fletcher Books)
King Death; Paul Finch (Spectral Press)

Anthology:
A Book of Horrors; editor Stephen Jones (Jo Fletcher Books)
House of Fear; editor Jonathan Oliver (Solaris Books)
The Weird; editors Jeff and Ann Vandermeer (Corvus Books)
Gutshot; editor Conrad Williams (PS Publishing)

Collection:
Rumours of the Marvellous; Peter Atkins (Alchemy Press)
Mrs Midnight; Reggie Oliver (Tartarus Press)
Everyone’s Just So So Special; Robert Shearman (Big Finish)
A Glass of Shadow; Liz Williams (NewCon Press)

Screenplay:
Midnight in Paris by Woody Allen
Attack the Block by Joe Cornish
The Awakening by Stephen Volk and Nick Murphy
Melancholia by Lars Von Trier
Kill List by Ben Wheatley and Amy Jump

Magazine/Periodical:
Black Static; ed. Andy Cox  TTA Press
Interzone; ed. Andy Cox   TTA Press
SFX, ed. Dave Bradley    Future Publishing
The Horror Zine, ed. Jeani Rector

Comic/Graphic Novel:
Animal Man; Jeff Lemire and Travel Foreman (DC Comics)
Batwoman; JH Williams III and W Haden Blackman (DC Comics)
Locke and Key; Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez (IDW Publishing)
The Unwritten; Mike Carey and Peter Gross (Vertigo)
The Walking Dead; Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard (Image)

As stated in the new rules of the BFAwards, the Judges can add a title they feel was an egregious omission from the initial recommendations. This year they added 2 titles to the novel category, 2 titles to the novella category, and 1 title to short fiction. If a category has 5 titles listed, this is due to a tie on number of votes and points.

The BFAward Judges, James Barclay, Hal Duncan, Maura McHugh, Esther Sherman, and Damien G. Walter, will now review the shortlist and enter into deliberations. The winners will be announced at FantasyCon in Brighton on 30 September 2012.

The Special Juries and shortlists for the following awards have also been announced:

The PS Publishing Independent Press Award:

Jurors:
Sandy Auden
Peter Crowther
Nicholas Royle
Peter Tennant
Darren Turpin

Shortlist:
Chomu Press; Quentin S Crisp
Gray Friar Press; Gary Fry
NewCon Press; Ian Whates
Spectral Press; Simon Marshall-Jones

The Artist Award:

Jurors:
Guy Adams
Anne Sudworth
Christopher Teague

Shortlist:
Ben Baldwin
Vincent Chong
Les Edwards
Daniele Serra

The Non-Fiction Award :

Jurors:
Djibril al-Ayad
Roz Kaveney
Adam Roberts

Shortlist:
Lest You Should Suffer Nightmares: A biography of Herbert Van Thal; Johnny Mains (Screaming Dreams)
Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero; Grant Morrison (Jonathan Cape)
Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen since the 1960s; Kim Newman (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Studies in Terror: Landmarks of Horror Cinema; Jonathan Rigby (Signum Books)
Case Notes; Peter Tennant (Black Static)

British Fantasy Society Chair Lee Harris says, “Our members have been consistent in recommending the best in horror and fantasy published in 2011, and we think we have an incredibly strong shortlist. Our judges have a hard job ahead of them and we’re sure the 2012 British Fantasy Awards will get people debating for the rest of the year.”

Find out more about our judges here. The full longlist of members’ recommendations will be available to view on the BFS website from next week.

AMENDMENT

There has been a slight amendment to the BFAwards shortlist as listed above.

King Death was mistakenly listed in the Best Novella category (instead of short story) and Alice Through the Plastic Sheet was listed in the Best Short Story category (instead of novella). Both stories continue to be eligible in their new homes. Apologies for any confusion, and many thanks to those of you who spotted the error.

The British Fantasy Society is delighted to announce the Special Juries for the British Fantasy Awards. The awards will be presented at FantasyCon in Brighton in September 2012.

The Jury for the PS Publishing Independent Press Award:
Sandy Auden
Peter Crowther
Nicholas Royle
Peter Tennant
Darren Turpin

Sandy Auden is a freelance writer and photographer. Her work has appeared in SFX, Interzone, Locus and Supernatural magazines; a wide range of websites; and the occasional music video.

Peter and Nicky Crowther’s PS Publishing received the coveted annual BFS Award for Best Specialist/Small Press on seven occasions until, with a yearly output running to between 40 and fifty titles, Peter removed it from further consideration and instead contributes an annual financial prize to imprints with more modest schedules. We’re not sure whether those moist eyes when he presents the Award are due to parting with the prize of £250 or hankering for the days when he was putting out less than a book every week.

Nicholas Royle is a novelist and short story writer, a commissioning editor for contemporary fiction at Salt Publishing, and editor and publisher of chapbook specialist Nightjar Press.

Peter Tennant is the book reviewer and a contributing editor to Black Static magazine. He’s also the proofreader for Interzone and Crimewave.

Darren Turpin is the Marketing / Publicity / Digital / Webguy for UK-based independent genre fiction publisher Angry Robot, as well as the proprietor of their Robot Trading Company webstore. In the past he’s been a Waterstones bookseller, a book reviewer and serial blogger (The Alien Online, The UK SF Book News Network, The Genre Files), a freelance website content manager and a Big Publishing corporate wage slave. He lives in Manchester with his wife Jo and their cat, Hobbes.

The Jury for the Artist Award:
Guy Adams
Anne Sudworth
Christopher Teague

Guy Adams has written over twenty books, ranging from novels such as The World House and the Deadbeat series to novelisations of Hammer movies and more books about Sherlock Holmes than you could shake a Calabash pipe at. He is also the writer of the comic series The Engine, working with artist Jimmy Broxton.

Anne Sudworth is a British artist with paintings in many international collections. She has exhibited widely and has had two books on her work published.

Christopher Teague has been an independent publisher for over ten years and is still relatively sane. In that time, he has realised that folk do judge a book by its front cover.

The Jury for the Non-Fiction Award:
Djibril al-Ayad
Roz Kaveney
Adam Roberts

Djibril al-Ayad is the editor of The Future Fire, a social-political speculative fiction magazine and review, as well as a writer and academic historian (under different pseudonyms).

Roz Kaveney is a poet, novelist, critic and activist resident in London.

Adam Roberts is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London; and the author of a dozen science fiction novels and various pieces of SF and Fantasy criticism.

***PLEASE NOTE THAT THE TIME PERIOD FOR MAKING RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE BRITISH FANTASY AWARDS HAS NOW CLOSED***

A reminder that voting for the British Fantasy Awards is now open and will close on 31 March 2012.

The new constitution for the awards may be found HERE

Members of the BFS (votes cast by a member whose membership expires after the vote is cast remain valid), members of FantasyCon 2011 and members of FantasyCon 2012 who register before voting closes on 31 March 2012 are eligible and encouraged to vote for works published for the first time in the English language in any part of the world in any format during the calendar year January to December 2011.

Each member may put forward up to three Recommendations in any category, expressed in preferential order. All Recommendations should ideally be accompanied with publication details: year of publication, publisher, and title of collection, magazine, editor, etc, if applicable.

Recommendations may not be made for the recommender’s own material.  The British Fantasy Society discourages the practice of canvassing for votes.

The four titles or names with the highest number of Recommendations will go forward to form the shortlist of nominations.

In the case of the award for Best Novel, members are invited to list up to three Recommendations in the categories of Horror and Fantasy.

The voting form is available online HERE

***PLEASE NOTE THAT THE TIME PERIOD FOR MAKING RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE BRITISH FANTASY AWARDS HAS NOW CLOSED***

The British Fantasy Society is delighted to announce that the 2012 British Fantasy Awards will be decided by a jury of five volunteers, a first in BFS history. The jury consists of:

James Barclay: James is the author of the two Raven trilogies: Chronicles of The Raven and Legends of The Raven, and the epic fantasy duology, The Ascendants of Estorea. He has written two novellas, Light Stealer and Vault of Deeds, and his latest book Elves: Once Walked With Gods is out now.

Hal Duncan: Hal’s debut Vellum was published in 2005, garnering nominations for the Crawford, Locus, BFS and World Fantasy Award, and winning the Gaylactic Spectrum, Kurd Lasswitz and Tähtivaeltaja. He’s since published the sequel Ink, the novella Escape from Hell!, various short stories, and a poetry collection.

Maura McHugh: Maura is a writer, freelance web designer and IT consultant. She’s currently writing two comic book series (Rķisín Dubh and Jennifer Wilde) for Atomic Diner in Ireland, and she also works for the Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild as their webmaster, blogger and newsletter editor.

Esther Sherman: Esther is a medical underwriter, burlesque performer, voracious reader, computer games addict and geek culture fan. She is co-editor of Nasty Snips 2, a horror anthology from Pendragon Press due in Autumn 2012.

Damien G. Walter: Damien is a writer of weird and speculative fiction. In 2005 he was shortlisted for the Douglas Coupland short fiction contest, and more recently won a grant from Arts Council England to work on his first novel. He writes and reviews for The Guardian and IO9 among others.

The jury will deliberate on a shortlist of four nominations as determined by the members of the BFS. The jury shall also have powers to add nominations where it identifies an egregious omission.

The British Fantasy Awards 2012 will be presented during FantasyCon, to be held in Brighton in September.